you re a candidate now, ron. thanks to what is sure to be remembered as the most awkward campaign launch in american history. plus, that s not fair. trump s lawyers channel their inner 8-year-old in a whining complaint to the u.s. attorney general with due apologies to 8-year-olds. later, one year after 19 students and two teachers were gunned down in uvalde, texas, an activist group floats a radical proposal for reining in america s deadly gun culture. and we begin tonight with a question. would you ever hire someone who participated in a deadly insurrection to overtake the u.s. capitol or fellow rioters threatened to kill the house speaker and hang the vice president? would you hire a woman who was once arrested and charged with stealing the campaign signs of a political rival who she had run against for public office? personally i wouldn t and i imagine most of you wouldn t either. but florida governor ron desantis did. this is sandra atkinson. her investigation by
In considering that ms. Cobbhunter i have to consider the entirety of the amendment. And the entirety of the amendment with a little section added in. I dont think i can rule outside the scope of the resolution. If there were separate questions before me, then may i ask you a question im sorry i didnt want to interrupt. Im going to overrule that point of order. Did you have another one . I have a couple more but im going to yield to my colleague mr. Smith, as i read through this once more. There are at least two, perhaps three more points of order that i think are pertinent here. If you would would the chair allow peame to consult with my attorney . No, maam. We cant well, you can consult with him. If theres another point of order may i just say this mr. Smith as he goes to his microphone what im not trying to delay. But the reason i want to consult with mr. Smith is because im not an attorney and i really dont know the law. And i want to not waste your time. So i want to make sure. Be
wear masks to protect their colleagues in the chamber. so these are the same people that pushed people back to work during the height of the pandemic. you know, they are the same folks who refused to even let us debate a hate crimes bill. so they re not about life. they re not pro life. indeed. i think what they want is not just the 1950s but perhaps the 1850s, i will summarize it there. the state s governor said they want to hunt democrats with dogs and most democrats in south carolina are african-americans. that too. indeed. south carolina state senator mia mccloud, thank you so much for being here. and stay safe. thank you for having me. god bless. still ahead, trump s attorney would like to have a chat with the u.s. attorney general about how unfair it is that their client is not above the law. i ll be right back.
washington post, quote, at some point in time the right of the state to see the unborn child born does take precedent over the woman s right to her body. he didn t add it so i will, under his eye. joining me now is one of those five sister senators independent south carolina state senator mia mccloud. senator mccloud, thank you for being here. i just wonder how it felt to you as one of the few women in that state senate to watch the men of that body take control of the women in your state and their bodies. well, joy, thanks for having me. you know, i ve said many times that the men in the south carolina senate, they speak with authority because they can t speak from experience. and so, you know, it wasn t a surprise to us that we were not successful this time, although it was very disheartening. we did have the help of senator
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Gov. Henry McMaster is asking the South Carolina Legislature to pass legislation that requires unwilling school districts to reopen for in-person learning, as well as legislation to implement a phased 15% income tax cut, a school-choice program and COVID-19 related liability protections for businesses.
McMaster presented his fourth State of the State address Wednesday evening to a joint session of lawmakers at the state Capitol in Columbia.
“This year, school districts in our state have received over $1.2 billion in COVID-19 relief from the federal government,” McMaster said. “Along with state funds, school districts have been provided the resources necessary to operate full-time, and teach in-person, five days a week. I ask the General Assembly to quickly send to my desk legislation for my signature that will require unwilling school districts to reopen